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MacThrottle

Lightweight macOS tool that tracks thermal pressure and throttling, shows real time CPU temperature and fan speed, provides 10-minute history graphs, statistics for thermal states, and customizable notifications, all without requiring administrator privileges.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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Platforms

  • Mac
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  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  No Tracking
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Works Offline
  6.  Hardware Monitoring
  7.  Sits in the menu bar
  8.  Temperature Monitoring
  9.  CPU temperature

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  •  728 Stars
  •  26 Forks
  •  10 Open Issues
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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about MacThrottle, and it has gotten 15 likes

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Milky
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Cool. This app works fantastic and is super clean looking. Love that it's open source. It would be nice if I could adjust fan speed from the utility as well.

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What is MacThrottle?

A lightweight macOS menu bar app that monitors thermal pressure and alerts you when your Mac is being throttled. No admin privileges required.

Features:

  • Displays thermal pressure state in the menu bar using different thermometer icons
  • Shows CPU core temperature (reads directly from SMC)
  • Shows fan speed percentage (on Macs with fans)
  • History graph showing thermal state, temperature, and fan speed over the last 10 minutes
  • Statistics showing time spent in each thermal state
  • Configurable notifications:
  • When heavy throttling begins
  • When critical throttling occurs
  • When throttling stops (recovery)
  • Optional notification sounds
  • Launch at Login option
  • No helper daemon or admin privileges required